Castello del Buonconsiglio monumenti e collezioni provinciali

Sala Grande

From the Loggia, taking the stairs to the second floor, one arrives at the largest and most impressive room of the Castle that was originally used to receive illustrious guests and to host banquets and feasts. The coffered ceiling of gilded and painted carved wood is harmonized with a magnificent frescoed frieze that runs the length of the walls, work of the Dossi brothers. The frieze depicts putti playing with the symbolic representations of the Prince-Bishop Bernardo Cles (the sceptres and the palm and laurel branches), along with the lions and eagle of his coat of arms and his name “BERNARDT” in gold lettering.

On the lower walls are the coats of arms of Charles V and Ferdinand I, while Bernardo Cles’s heraldic symbols appear again in a decorative motif on the marble fireplace’s two satyrs, the work of Vincenzo Grandi in 1532.

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